#interrupted performance

On February 10, 1955, Eartha Kitt stopped her performance in Mrs. Patterson at the National Theater after eight minutes, moaning "I can't go through with it." Her default caused the management to refund tickets for 900 patrons. Kitt entered Doctor's Hospital the following afternoon with a kidney infection. She promised, however, that she would continue to do the show, leaving the hospital each night for the performance and going back when it was over. Here, she makes up in her dressing room before returning to the Broadway play the evening of February 11.

This Broadway actor took a compassionate stand when a crying child with autism interrupted the show

At one point in your life, you may have experienced the inconvenience of having to deal with a stranger’s crying child. Or maybe not just at one point, but multiple times. If you’ll come to think of it, it’s a pretty normal situation.

Children do this all the time, and we expect their parents to magically make them stop. Perhaps inside a movie theater, you’ve heard a child say obvious innocent…